IMAP versus POP
Official Gmail Blog: Getting Gmail anywhere: IMAP versus POP
I had this discussion with my students Monday night and I’ve been fighting with a client’s email problem because of POP, so the timing of this couldn’t be any better.
The virtues of POP lie solely in from the perspective of the email provider. Hold the […]
Money to AECL in the Budget 2008
CBC News In Depth: Federal Budget 2008
Under the heading of Environment:
$300 million to the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) for its operations, including development of the Advanced CANDU nuclear reactor.
Considering its environmental policy (or lack thereof), the Chalk River affair, and the fact that the Harper government isn’t hiding the fact that it wants […]
The power of social networking…
is the unintended connections and uses of the tool. Like getting a tweet when your plant needs water.
Botanicalls Twitter DIY
MSFT offers $44.6 billion YHOO
Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo in $44.6 billion deal | Top News | Reuters
CBC.ca: Microsoft offers $44.6B US in cash and stock for Yahoo
Too little, too late, and for too much. Is this going to be Bill’s legacy? Going to make for lots of tech talk in business and tech circles. Google […]
My eco-gadget list
2008’s most desirable eco-gadgets at EcoStreet - Raising Green Consciousness since 2002
Pretty much sums it up, I’ll take one of each… make that 2 of the solar backpacks.
No money in open-source software?
TheStar.com | Business | Sun Microsystems to buy MySQL for $1B
Who said there there is no money in open-source software? MySQL has built a stable and sustainable business model around its open-source version of its database. Now it is cashing in on that for 9 zero’s. Good job!
Canadarm is now the USArm
CBC.ca | MDA selling Canadarm business to U.S. firm
Despite being a good business decision due to MDA’s problems accessing the US Defence contracts, it is another Canadian asset sold off to foreign interests. Metals are almost gone, oil is going, and now more technology (nuclear is next - GE buying AECL)… I am […]
Why i will never own an iPhone
Tod Maffin blog: todbits.com » Blog Archive » iPhone, I hardly knew ya. :-(
I feel for you Tod… seeing how many times i’ve dropped my sony/ericsson w300i in the past year, and iPod nano in the past 2 months, the iphone is just not worth the inevitable replacement fee. The […]
mini migration
… was successful if you are reading this.
In reality it was a huge effort migrating the web, db, and mail data from the old Gentoo box that has been serving Pavlidis.org for the past 4.5 years to a Mac mini. I’m planning to write up the process of setting up the mini with Apache2, […]
Hydrogen Age Missing Piece Discovered
Hydrogen Storage: UNBF Researchers Achieve Technology Breakthrough — March 7, 2007 - News@UNB
Hydrogen in solid state, the missing link to the dawn of the Hydrogen Age… now if only we could get the energy companies to pour all the profits from the non-renewable tar sands into hydrogen Canada could lead the World in energy […]